In an era where people are calling for legalization of drugs...
Are there many people calling for the legalisation of cocaine?
...you might want to consider that people had motives for banning drugs in the first place.
Indeed. It turns out that reduction of harm rarely makes the top three, otherwise tobacco and alcohol would be banned and I imagine we'd all be buying marijuana and ecstasy from what used to be liquor stores.
Is there no Windows Media Player in 10? Not that I'd ever use it by choice when there are alternatives like VLC around, but it should suit your needs if it's still there.
The UK did NOT "vote for Brexit". It was a referendum. A poll, if that's easier for you to understand.
Semantics. There was a referendum on whether or not the UK would leave. Whether or not the result is binding is immaterial in this context; more people voted for leave than did remain. (I didn't, as it happens, so don't bother lumping me in with the "Brexit means Brexit" crowd.)
There is no law or legal obligation to actually go out and withdraw from the EU as a result.
Technically true, but actually going against the result would be political suicide even if the whips could manage it.
The current government, a right-wing government (Trump), agreed with the outcome of the poll...
No more right-wing than the last one*, and fuck all to do with Trump. It's debatable whether or not they agree either; the government's official position before the vote was to remain in the EU. We have disingenuous frauds like Farage, duffers in the Tory back benches, a lacklustre remain campaign and unprincipled media outlets to blame for the leave vote.
...and hopes to stay in power by implementing the result preferred by 51.9 percent of the people.
Well, duh. Of course they hope to stay in power, have you ever seen a politician who didn't?! The result was actually 37.4% of the electorate voting for leave, vs. 34.7% voting remain. Only 26.7% of "the people" voted to leave the EU. Sorry if that sounds petty but I cringe whenever I hear a politician waxing lyrical about their so-called mandate from the people when they have don't even have a majority of the electorate behind them.
They have no legal obligation to do this.
No, but as said earlier they'd be insane not to follow through. The best they could hope for is a second referendum on whether to accept the terrible deal we'll end up with.
They have already lost one legal challenge, which they are appealing and will likely lose a second time.
You're talking about the high court ruling, which was that the government cannot trigger Article 50 to begin the process of leaving without a parliamentary vote first. On face value one might think that they really want to leave, but the government is likely just worried that either MPs (on both sides) will not vote in favour of leaving or that somehow the UK will tip its hand when it comes to treaty negotiations, so they want to be able to start the leaving process without public scrutiny. In reality I don't think the government wants to leave the EU any more than I do but that's Cameron's fault for not standing up to the old guard in the Tory party and giving us a referendum in the first place.
*So far, anyway. I'm of the opinion that home secretaries make bad PMs: their job is to maintain order and they tend not to be too concerned about liberty when they go about it. When they have that mindset and actually have the power to follow through on it we end up with things like the snooper's charter.
...I still maintain and use my Steam account I buy very little new stuff from them at this point...
Me too. In my case, though, it's because it's nearly impossible to find anything in the store without being bogged down in F2P crap and indie games using 8-bit nostalgia as a crutch for lazy graphics work. There really is no way to filter out indie games.
The last thing I bought from Steam was Doom, and that's only because I could search for it by name.
When life feels like shit, you want to take everyone down with you.
For you perhaps. I've been through some very dark times myself, but in my case the only thing that stopped me doing something... permanent... was the thought of how it would hurt the people who care about me. What really scared me at the time was that if things carried on as they were then sooner or later the scales would tip the other way.
Alchemy is... real? I'm not talking about turning stuff into gold but turning some elements into others using certain... what-looks-to-be chemical reactions?
By definition you can't change one element into another using chemistry. Nuclear reactions on the other hand always produce different elements or different isotopes. Making gold is not economical and I read somewhere that it's actually easier to turn gold into lead than vice-versa, but in theory one could turn a profit by transmuting iridium (around $30 per kg) into rhenium (~$6,000 per kg) and optionally then turn the rhenium into osmium (~$10,000 per kg). That is if one happened to have a slow neutron source lying around and a lot of time on one's hands. The trick, I imagine, would be separating the stock material into its isotopes. This is an exercise left to the reader, as the saying goes.
and yet they sell millions of Wiis and DS handhelds.
Handhelds maybe, but this thing is outselling the Wii. When your flagship product is gathering dust on the shelves and you can't restock your retro item fast enough you've got problems. I'd hoped that Nintendo would have toned down the gimmicks for the latest Wii but the way things going I have my doubts about their long-term future. At least they have the DS to keep them going.
Pokémon Go wasn't actually made by Nintendo, by the way.
Imagine if all of the music, books, films, etc. through 1988 were in the public domain, along with and many of the works through 2002. What a different world it would be!
Yes, we'd be inundated with remakes, reboots and unneccessary sequels of classic works...
I didn't mind the crowds on the Metro as much as the smell. I think one would be forgiven for thinking that half of Paris use the Metro stations as a latrine.
Air _is_ an insulator. Its the same idea as double pane windows.
Double glazed windows have a vacuum (or sometimes a noble gas) between the panes. If air gets in between the panes condensation starts to appear in cold weather. If that happens the window has to be replaced; they can't be repaired economically.
Why is underage sexting a problem worth addressing, but adult sexting is not?
Disclaimer: I make no comment on the morality of sexting generally. To answer your question, it's the same reason we make the distinction between consensual and underage sex: the line between parental and self-responsibility has to be drawn somewhere.
The strange thing is, we usually don't blame the child for wearing the stupid hat. Instead, we blame the peer for mockingly posting the hat photo on facebook.
Either you've never been in a school playground or that's a bald-faced lie. That's to say nothing of what happens when an adolescent gets access to social media. If you think adults are any better then I'm amazed you've managed to last as long as you have.
It's similar to the Electoral College, except the MPs do the voting.
Not quite. The MPs do not elect the prime minister; political parties elect their own leaders and these are "invited" by the Crown to form a government, usually after a general election.
As I understand it this is closer to the US primary system where the general populace vote on who will be the presidential candidate in the main election.
He used "indiscrete", not "indiscreet". That's what it says in the summary anyway, but having read through that round of buzzword bingo I don't think I'll waste my time checking TFA to see what he used there.
As to the idea of silly game elements bleeding into my everyday life... No thanks. You can keep it. They've been trying this on and off for years and it's still a nuisance at best.
I have to download your app on my phone and check it every day to fully enjoy your game? I'm looking at you, Rockstar, and your little dog too. Learn Sega's lesson from the Dreamcast and GTFO. What this guy is describing sounds very much like making casual games non-casual in the worst possible way.
Last time I checked the popular vote showed Trump having a majority of 200,000. That's two hundred thousand in a country of over three hundred million people. There is no margin. There is no "true wish of the electorate", nor can there ever be one in a FPTP voting system.
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In an era where people are calling for legalization of drugs...
Are there many people calling for the legalisation of cocaine?
...you might want to consider that people had motives for banning drugs in the first place.
Indeed. It turns out that reduction of harm rarely makes the top three, otherwise tobacco and alcohol would be banned and I imagine we'd all be buying marijuana and ecstasy from what used to be liquor stores.
Is there no Windows Media Player in 10? Not that I'd ever use it by choice when there are alternatives like VLC around, but it should suit your needs if it's still there.
The UK did NOT "vote for Brexit". It was a referendum. A poll, if that's easier for you to understand.
Semantics. There was a referendum on whether or not the UK would leave. Whether or not the result is binding is immaterial in this context; more people voted for leave than did remain. (I didn't, as it happens, so don't bother lumping me in with the "Brexit means Brexit" crowd.)
There is no law or legal obligation to actually go out and withdraw from the EU as a result.
Technically true, but actually going against the result would be political suicide even if the whips could manage it.
The current government, a right-wing government (Trump), agreed with the outcome of the poll...
No more right-wing than the last one*, and fuck all to do with Trump. It's debatable whether or not they agree either; the government's official position before the vote was to remain in the EU. We have disingenuous frauds like Farage, duffers in the Tory back benches, a lacklustre remain campaign and unprincipled media outlets to blame for the leave vote.
...and hopes to stay in power by implementing the result preferred by 51.9 percent of the people.
Well, duh. Of course they hope to stay in power, have you ever seen a politician who didn't?! The result was actually 37.4% of the electorate voting for leave, vs. 34.7% voting remain. Only 26.7% of "the people" voted to leave the EU. Sorry if that sounds petty but I cringe whenever I hear a politician waxing lyrical about their so-called mandate from the people when they have don't even have a majority of the electorate behind them.
They have no legal obligation to do this.
No, but as said earlier they'd be insane not to follow through. The best they could hope for is a second referendum on whether to accept the terrible deal we'll end up with.
They have already lost one legal challenge, which they are appealing and will likely lose a second time.
You're talking about the high court ruling, which was that the government cannot trigger Article 50 to begin the process of leaving without a parliamentary vote first. On face value one might think that they really want to leave, but the government is likely just worried that either MPs (on both sides) will not vote in favour of leaving or that somehow the UK will tip its hand when it comes to treaty negotiations, so they want to be able to start the leaving process without public scrutiny. In reality I don't think the government wants to leave the EU any more than I do but that's Cameron's fault for not standing up to the old guard in the Tory party and giving us a referendum in the first place.
*So far, anyway. I'm of the opinion that home secretaries make bad PMs: their job is to maintain order and they tend not to be too concerned about liberty when they go about it. When they have that mindset and actually have the power to follow through on it we end up with things like the snooper's charter.
Sarah Connor Chronicles got cut?
It did. I hear both the fans were absolutely distraught.
...I still maintain and use my Steam account I buy very little new stuff from them at this point ...
Me too. In my case, though, it's because it's nearly impossible to find anything in the store without being bogged down in F2P crap and indie games using 8-bit nostalgia as a crutch for lazy graphics work. There really is no way to filter out indie games.
The last thing I bought from Steam was Doom, and that's only because I could search for it by name.
When life feels like shit, you want to take everyone down with you.
For you perhaps. I've been through some very dark times myself, but in my case the only thing that stopped me doing something... permanent... was the thought of how it would hurt the people who care about me. What really scared me at the time was that if things carried on as they were then sooner or later the scales would tip the other way.
Alchemy is ... real? I'm not talking about turning stuff into gold but turning some elements into others using certain ... what-looks-to-be chemical reactions?
By definition you can't change one element into another using chemistry. Nuclear reactions on the other hand always produce different elements or different isotopes. Making gold is not economical and I read somewhere that it's actually easier to turn gold into lead than vice-versa, but in theory one could turn a profit by transmuting iridium (around $30 per kg) into rhenium (~$6,000 per kg) and optionally then turn the rhenium into osmium (~$10,000 per kg). That is if one happened to have a slow neutron source lying around and a lot of time on one's hands. The trick, I imagine, would be separating the stock material into its isotopes. This is an exercise left to the reader, as the saying goes.
and yet they sell millions of Wiis and DS handhelds.
Handhelds maybe, but this thing is outselling the Wii. When your flagship product is gathering dust on the shelves and you can't restock your retro item fast enough you've got problems. I'd hoped that Nintendo would have toned down the gimmicks for the latest Wii but the way things going I have my doubts about their long-term future. At least they have the DS to keep them going.
Pokémon Go wasn't actually made by Nintendo, by the way.
The bags are filled with nitrogen (not air BTW) so that the crisps are less likely to be broken when the bag gets squashed.
My point is that we're already inundated with re-hash crap. It could hardly get any worse with shorter copyright terms than it is now!
Imagine if all of the music, books, films, etc. through 1988 were in the public domain, along with and many of the works through 2002. What a different world it would be!
Yes, we'd be inundated with remakes, reboots and unneccessary sequels of classic works...
...Oh. Nevermind.
I didn't mind the crowds on the Metro as much as the smell. I think one would be forgiven for thinking that half of Paris use the Metro stations as a latrine.
Air _is_ an insulator. Its the same idea as double pane windows.
Double glazed windows have a vacuum (or sometimes a noble gas) between the panes. If air gets in between the panes condensation starts to appear in cold weather. If that happens the window has to be replaced; they can't be repaired economically.
Why is underage sexting a problem worth addressing, but adult sexting is not?
Disclaimer: I make no comment on the morality of sexting generally.
To answer your question, it's the same reason we make the distinction between consensual and underage sex: the line between parental and self-responsibility has to be drawn somewhere.
The strange thing is, we usually don't blame the child for wearing the stupid hat. Instead, we blame the peer for mockingly posting the hat photo on facebook.
Either you've never been in a school playground or that's a bald-faced lie. That's to say nothing of what happens when an adolescent gets access to social media. If you think adults are any better then I'm amazed you've managed to last as long as you have.
Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
Because you lack the courage of your convictions?
...many 3d scanners don't like transparent objects.
Did you try painting it, or colouring it with a sharpie?
It's similar to the Electoral College, except the MPs do the voting.
Not quite. The MPs do not elect the prime minister; political parties elect their own leaders and these are "invited" by the Crown to form a government, usually after a general election.
As I understand it this is closer to the US primary system where the general populace vote on who will be the presidential candidate in the main election.
...detected the thump of the parachute strings going-taught, determined that meant it was on the ground, and cut the parachute...
Just think about that again for a moment.
It's "taut" by the way, but apart from that I see a bright new career in space exploration in your future.
My prediction is that this is a fluff piece and the "breakthrough" is complete bullshit.
Of course, it's being reported in the Telegraph.
then why does it work for pets?
It works the same way my magic rock cures a cold within a week or two.
Ever heard the adage 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'?
Yes, but it has nothing to do with actual glass houses.
Interesting use of the word "indiscreet"
He used "indiscrete", not "indiscreet". That's what it says in the summary anyway, but having read through that round of buzzword bingo I don't think I'll waste my time checking TFA to see what he used there.
As to the idea of silly game elements bleeding into my everyday life... No thanks. You can keep it. They've been trying this on and off for years and it's still a nuisance at best.
I have to download your app on my phone and check it every day to fully enjoy your game? I'm looking at you, Rockstar, and your little dog too. Learn Sega's lesson from the Dreamcast and GTFO. What this guy is describing sounds very much like making casual games non-casual in the worst possible way.
I think they should call it "OttoPilot" in Germany.
By your command.
Using the word "whom" is like riding a unicycle...
The margins are gonna be a lot narrower,...
Last time I checked the popular vote showed Trump having a majority of 200,000. That's two hundred thousand in a country of over three hundred million people. There is no margin. There is no "true wish of the electorate", nor can there ever be one in a FPTP voting system.